From 9fa79400399162ab236bf4c80e02b8fc92f9ccda Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: kevin-tian <kevin.tian@ibm.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2023 14:04:27 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] wip debug wrong instance test

---
 .github/workflows/ci.yml         | 1 -
 test/integration/test_backend.py | 3 +++
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index 01a763c81..c5c15e80e 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -111,7 +111,6 @@ jobs:
           parallel: true
           path-to-lcov: coverage.lcov
   integration-tests:
-    if: github.event_name == 'push' && github.repository_owner == 'Qiskit'
     # only kick-off resource intensive integration tests if unit tests and all basic checks succeeded
     needs: [ "unit-tests"  ]
     name: Run integration tests - ${{ matrix.environment }}
diff --git a/test/integration/test_backend.py b/test/integration/test_backend.py
index 865a3659d..e61cf8031 100644
--- a/test/integration/test_backend.py
+++ b/test/integration/test_backend.py
@@ -59,9 +59,12 @@ def test_backend_wrong_instance(self, service):
         unique_hgp = list(
             set(hgp_2_backends) - set(hgp_1_backends)
         )  # get differences between the two lists
+        print(hgp_1_backends)
+        print(hgp_2_backends)
         if unique_hgp:
             unique_backend = unique_hgp[0]
             with self.assertRaises(QiskitBackendNotFoundError):
+                print(unique_backend, hgp_1)
                 service.backend(unique_backend.name, instance=hgp_1)
 
     @run_integration_test

From 2efbf952de386675ba6aeaee66109e90eabb368e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: kevin-tian <kevin.tian@ibm.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2023 14:33:09 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] enable integration test

---
 .github/workflows/integration-tests.yml | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/integration-tests.yml b/.github/workflows/integration-tests.yml
index a3c6c2cf4..f9293a578 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/integration-tests.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/integration-tests.yml
@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@ on:
   workflow_dispatch:
 jobs:
   integration-tests:
-    if: github.repository_owner == 'Qiskit'
     name: Run integration tests - ${{ matrix.environment }}
     runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
     strategy:

From 822660bd1d0f270d094d72098d756d5d19cce458 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: kevin-tian <kevin.tian@ibm.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2023 18:41:14 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] use backend names instead of obj

---
 .github/workflows/ci.yml                |  1 +
 .github/workflows/integration-tests.yml |  1 +
 test/integration/test_backend.py        | 15 ++++++---------
 3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index c5c15e80e..01a763c81 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -111,6 +111,7 @@ jobs:
           parallel: true
           path-to-lcov: coverage.lcov
   integration-tests:
+    if: github.event_name == 'push' && github.repository_owner == 'Qiskit'
     # only kick-off resource intensive integration tests if unit tests and all basic checks succeeded
     needs: [ "unit-tests"  ]
     name: Run integration tests - ${{ matrix.environment }}
diff --git a/.github/workflows/integration-tests.yml b/.github/workflows/integration-tests.yml
index f9293a578..a3c6c2cf4 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/integration-tests.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/integration-tests.yml
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ on:
   workflow_dispatch:
 jobs:
   integration-tests:
+    if: github.repository_owner == 'Qiskit'
     name: Run integration tests - ${{ matrix.environment }}
     runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
     strategy:
diff --git a/test/integration/test_backend.py b/test/integration/test_backend.py
index bc897c5e1..788d08f46 100644
--- a/test/integration/test_backend.py
+++ b/test/integration/test_backend.py
@@ -55,18 +55,15 @@ def test_backend_wrong_instance(self, service):
 
         hgp_1 = hgps[0]
         hgp_2 = hgps[1]
-        hgp_1_backends = service.backends(instance=hgp_1)
-        hgp_2_backends = service.backends(instance=hgp_2)
-        unique_hgp = list(
+        hgp_1_backends = [backend.name for backend in service.backends(instance=hgp_1)]
+        hgp_2_backends = [backend.name for backend in service.backends(instance=hgp_2)]
+        unique_backends_list = list(
             set(hgp_2_backends) - set(hgp_1_backends)
         )  # get differences between the two lists
-        print(hgp_1_backends)
-        print(hgp_2_backends)
-        if unique_hgp:
-            unique_backend = unique_hgp[0]
+        if unique_backends_list:
+            unique_backend = unique_backends_list[0]
             with self.assertRaises(QiskitBackendNotFoundError):
-                print(unique_backend, hgp_1)
-                service.backend(unique_backend.name, instance=hgp_1)
+                service.backend(unique_backend, instance=hgp_1)
 
     @run_integration_test
     @quantum_only